Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1852-100, Hugh Gillen, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Ua.
Gillen, Hugh
B.L. NF 1852-100
CONTENTS

House of Reps.
May 28. 1832
Dr. Sir,
I enclose you the papers in the case of the heirs of Hugh Green. The certificate of the surrogate is altered agreeably to your suggestion.
I am n ly Yrs.
Yours &
Sam l J. Wilkin

City and County of New York } ss
Elizabeth Cathill and Susan Conklin of said City, being duly sworn do depose and say, that they were acquainted with Hugh Gillen and Susannah Gillen late of the City of New York deceased forty years ago, or upwards, and from that time down to the time of their deaths respectively, and that they always understood during the life time of the said Hugh Gillen and Susannah Gillen, and still do believe, that they were man and wife; and deponents further say that Susannah Crispey now aged about forty years, and Elizabeth Hartshorne now aged about forty two years, both residing in Rockland County the City of New York, and Catharine Johnson now aged about thirty nine years residing in Rockland County, all of whom only surviving children of the deponents are well acquainted with, are the only heirs of the said Hugh Gillen deceased -
Sworn before me this 22nd day of May 1832 before me } James Campbell
Susannah Conklin Elizabeth Cathill
State of New York } County of New York } ss
I James Campbell Surrogate of the County of New York do hereby certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction that Susannah Crispey, Elizabeth Hartshorne and Catharine Johnson are the only heirs of Hugh Gillen late a soldier in the Virginia line in the American Army of the Revolutionary war deceased - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto

Set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of New York the 22 nd day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two and of our Independence the fifty seventh
James Campbell Minogate
The words "only surviving children and the" were interlined just interlined. James Campbell Minogate

Heirs of Hugh Green
Hugh Gillen N. 1852
N. May 28. 1882

State of New York City & County of New York
We Susannah Crissy, Elizabeth Hartshorn and Catherine Johnson Heirs at law of Hugh Gillen, do upon oath testify and declare, to the best of our knowledge and belief that Hugh Gillen did enlist sometime in the year Seventeen hundred and twenty five for the term of during the war, and served in a regiment of the Virginia line and that he continued in the service untill the end of the war. and we always understood and believed, and further declare that we have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Hugh Gillen on the part of the United States nor do we believe that he ever received any or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever, therefore know all men by these presents that we Susannah Crissy Elizabeth Hartshorn and Catherine Johnson aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel S. Wilkinson Esq. to be our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to us as aforesaid and our said Attorney is hereby fully authorized empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or Attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed
Sworn to and acknowledged before me this 25 th day of April 1832 Solomon Seixas Public Notary
Susannah Crissy Elizabeth her X Hartshorne Catherine her X Johnson mark
Personally appeared the above named Susannah Crissy Elizabeth Hartshorn and Catherine Johnson Subscribers to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto Subjoined to be their free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
Solomon Seixas Public Notary